Edited and co-ordinated by Honey Luard
Editorial assistance by Alex Bennett
Designed by (Studio) Jonathan Hares
Texts by Mina Kim and Hans Ulrich Obrist
 
Printed by Druckerei Odermatt AG, Switzerland
290 x 220 mm, softback 
208 pages, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-1-910844-74-8
Published by White Cube, November 2024
 
This catalogue celebrates the ‘Newspaper Ecriture’ paintings by Park Seo-Bo, exhibited at White Cube New York (November 2024 – January 2025), marking the final body of work created by the artist before his passing in 2023. Initiated in the late 1970s on archival newspaper pages, this series epitomises Park’s meditations on temporality and introspective methodologies, exemplifying, as Park says, that ‘periodicity is a mysterious thing’. 

Designed by (Studio) Jonathan Hares, this softback publication features Japanese binding and records the series in its entirety alongside select archival images, together reflecting the works’ ruminative process and indexical execution. A conversation between Park and Hans Ulrich Obrist charts the inception of this series and the artist’s subsequent return to the medium in the early 2020s. In dialogue with Obrist, Park traces this series along personal experiences, noting: ‘I am painting by connecting all the parts of my life with the sum of my life.’ Elsewhere, an essay by scholar Mina Kim constellates the processual, physical and philosophical dimensions of this body work, contemplating the potential of its future legacy.

Mina Kim specialises in Korean art, Korean American art, Chinese art, and transnational and global visual culture. She is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of Serpentine in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles.